cavalryman
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8.1
- noun
- /ˈkævəlrimən/
:
caballero
- Similarly, a correspondent to the Edgefield Advertiser praised James Jones Gregg, a Confederate cavalryman, for donating funds to the local board of relief.
- Confederate cavalryman
- cavalryman atop a horse
- dead cavalryman
They were tremendously good, fast cavalrymen, a staunch ally of Carthage, but Skipio manages to talk them out of it.
- They were tremendously good, fast cavalrymen, a staunch ally of Carthage, but Skipio manages to talk them out of it.
Examples
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It's Oyelowo's voice that intones the Gettysburg Address in the first Lincoln trailer; he plays a Union cavalryman in the film, out Nov. 9.
Blog text (30) -
It originated with horse cavalry when the sword was still the cavalryman's primary weapon.
Blog text (22) -
A cavalryman sat his horse at a crossroads not far past the canal.
Fiction book (1992) -
"Don't anger him up, Pete," the cavalryman who had spoken before said.
Fiction book (1992) -
Forting up is not exactly a cavalryman's dream.
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As it turned out, one of the men who joined up on that expedition was an Athenian cavalryman by the name of Xenophon.
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Most Macedonian cavalrymen wore a simple tunic with a pair of standard open toed army boots.
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As all of those present at the wedding knew, cavalryman Morgan had courted the charming Mattie when he was based in Murfreesboro months earlier, but he then had been forced to desist from romancing in person.
Fiction book (1996) -
Other war veterans sympathized with Corbett; an old cavalryman and legislator arranged a job for him as a doorkeeper in the Kansas House of Representatives in Topeka.
Academic text (2009) -
During the Civil War, many a brave cavalryman charged into battle on horseback, playing a vital role in the fight.
Synonyms
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5.8
A soldier who fights in tanks or armored vehicles
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9.9
A soldier who rides a horse and fights on foot
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9.9
A soldier in medieval times who wears heavy armour and fights on horseback
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7.9
A soldier or knight who fights while riding a horse
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9.9
A soldier who rides fast horses and wears fancy uniforms
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9.9
A soldier who fights on horseback and uses a short rifle
A soldier who fights on horseback
A woman soldier who fights while riding horses or in armored vehicles
A soldier on horseback who fights using a long pole with a metal tip
How Armored
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Cavalryman comes from cavalry, a word that goes back to the Latin word caballus meaning 'horse', so a cavalryman was literally a 'horse soldier'. That's why today cavalryman still means a soldier who serves in a unit that once fought on horses and now may use vehicles.